[Noisebridge-discuss] DEAD AIR

[John Morgan]

Dear Noisebridge,

In the current political climate both here and abroad, I am highly
concerned with the censorship that is occurring on a seemingly daily basis.

I see two layer of this model that needs some "hacker" modifications....

#1) The Physical Layer:  About two weeks ago at #occupysf there were
widespread reports that 3 mobile providers had shutdown their networks in
the area.  I happened to be there that night, and luckily had no problems
as I had a different provider then the 3 described in various tweets.  It
really doesn't matter if it's collusion with the telco's or if the cops are
using frequency jammers.  We need to be able to find a solid physical link
so that citizen journalism can be heard.  This may be done by using many
other frequencies that are not targeted for jamming... Satellite? Ham?
Other ideas?  (Smoke Signal Packets?  Passenger pigeons carrying microSD
Cards? (kind-of joking here, but trying to think outside the box))

#2) The app layer:  Twitter has personally censored some of my tweets, and
assume others are experiencing the same thing.  (I may see 10 retweets that
are suddenly gone the next day or tweets never get out to the feeds in the
first place, etc...)   I realize there are some encrypted, uncensored,
secure options to twitter; but what are the most popular?  Are people
actually using them (are they getting exposure?)

I think problem #1 is the largest and anyone who is willing to help
overcome such an issue I would love to brainstorm with..

WE THE HACKERS are the first line of defense against censorship, and if we
can't help, who can?
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